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arxiv: 1609.06142 · v1 · pith:G7I724FEnew · submitted 2016-09-20 · 🌌 astro-ph.IM

On-sky tests of sky-subtraction methods for fiber-fed spectrographs

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keywords subtractionfiber-fedmethodsaccuracydualon-skyspectrographsstare
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We present preliminary results on on-sky test of sky subtraction methods for fiber-fed spectrograph. Using dedicated observation with FLAMES/VLT in I-band, we have tested the accuracy of the sky subtraction for 4 sky subtraction methods: mean sky, closest sky, dual stare and cross-beam switching. The cross beam-switching and dual stare method reach accuracy and precision of the sky subtraction under 1%. In contrast to the commonly held view in the literature, this result points out that fiber-fed spectrographs are adapted for the observations of faint targets.

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